A digital marketplace for construction should be as neutral as possible, providing a space for buyers and sellers to find each other, without influencing the transaction.. Xometry.
In the first place, DfMA is often used to mean prefab, which it doesn’t.Additionally, it’s important to recognize that a lot of DfMA principles and processes aren't necessarily specific to construction prefabrication.. “They're just good design principles.
Good for everybody,” she says.. To illustrate, Marks mentions that she once worked on a billion-dollar hospital project, originally planned with over 700 different types of bathroom.The situation wasn’t beneficial for anyone involved, she says, and wasn’t sensible from either a build or operational perspective.Ultimately, her team whittled the final total down to a mere seven types - a change that worked better on every level of the project.. Talking transformation: ‘Industrialised Construction’ & ‘MMC.’.
One of the challenges we’re facing is that, on a very basic level, the construction industry has an issue with language.Terms lose their meaning, or are used to mean different things by different people, Marks says.
These days we use terms like ‘industrialised construction’ to refer to the overarching DfMA principle being used throughout the built environment.
Marks has embraced industrialised construction as a term, however, but she acknowledges that some industry professionals, working in areas that aren’t directly related to construction, don’t always feel represented by it.. There’s also the term ‘Modern Methods of Construction’ (MMC), which Marks says she used to use but doesn’t anymore.With the current pandemic, however, the focus on buildings is moving away from energy efficient buildings, and towards healthy buildings.
But can we have both?.The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) has just released a. set of documents.
which provide guidance for building owners and managers on how to start reoccupying their buildings.The guidance relates to safe working practices and the assessment of building services..
(Editor: Eco Clocks)